Authors

Vice Admiral, United States Coast Guard (retired)

Independent Analyst

Diplomat, scholar in Asian Studies (at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University) and an expert on Thailand

Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, President of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

PhD in History, Professor at Chair of Theory and History of International Relations, Boris Yeltsin Urals Federal University

Professor and Chair, Department of International and Comparative Politics American University of Paris

Ph.D. in History; Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Center for Tropical African Studies, Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in Political Science, Senior Researcher at the International Institutes Research Center at the Institute of Applied Economic Policies, Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)

PhD, Adjunct Lecturer, American University of Armenia

Master of Science (Econ) from Copenhagen Business School, University degree in Spanish Culture and Languages from University of Copenhagen

Researcher at the Center for Central Asian Studies of the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lecturer in the School of International Affairs at the Higher School of Economics

PhD in Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Regional Economic Studies, Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Expert at the Institute of the Middle East, graduate of International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy at MGIMO

PhD in Technical Sciences, retired Major General

Senior Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

MA student, National Research University – Higher School of Economics

Ph.D. in Political Science; Professor, Institute of International Relations at Pyatigorsk State University

Doctor of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Middle East Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor at the Higher School of Economics

PhD in Political Science, EU and CE policy department of the Institute of European Studies at MGIMO University

Director of the Sino-Russian Research Centre for the Digital Economy at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Deputy Chairman, Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy

Rector of the Far Eastern Federal University (2012–2016), RIAC member.

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Etalon Group

Researcher at Ankara based think-tank International Strategic Research Organization (USAK)

PhD in Political Science, Head of the Center for Regional Studies at RAS Institute for the U.S. and Canadian Studies